More than 40 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act the average women continues to earn only 77 cents on the dollar to their male counterparts. Minority women face an even larger wage gap.
Just one year out of college, women working full time earn only 80% of what their male counterparts earn, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the gap widens. Pay disparities affect women of all ages, races, and education levels-regardless of their family decisions.
AAUW believes that pay equity is a simple matter of justice and continues to support initiatives that seek to close the persistent and sizable wage gap between men and women.
In NYS it's time to take action.
It's time for us to take action because Albany apparently won't.
It's the same thing every year -- the pay equity bill passes the House but never gets out of the Labor Committee in the Senate. For six years our elected representatives have been giving us nothing but lip service.
Bruno won't comment. Robach, Committee Chair, talks out of both sides of his mouth.
Read the AAUW Educational Foundation's research report, Behind the Pay Gap for more information information on the pay gap.
518.455.2909 (preferable) and ask for his Chief of Staff
or write him at 902 LOB, Albany, NY 12247
or e-mail robach@senate.state.ny.us.
Tell him you want the NYS Fair Pay Bill (S3936) out of committee and on the floor of the Senate for debate. We want to know where our elected representatives stand on pay equity. When will that happen?
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